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Container Service for Kubernetes:storage-operator

Last Updated:Jan 22, 2026

storage-operator provides storage features such as automatic volume expansion, online cloud disk resizing, storage resource monitoring, and data prefill (creating high-performance volumes pre-filled with data from an OSS bucket) to improve the O&M efficiency of Alibaba Cloud storage resources in ACK clusters. This topic describes how to use the storage-operator component and lists its changelog.

Component introduction

By default, storage-operator is deployed in the cluster as a Deployment with the following features enabled.

  • Volume auto scaling: Automatically scales disk and NAS volumes.

    To disable this feature, add the Feature Gate Expander=false.

  • Disk configuration modification: Modifies disk configurations.

    To disable this feature, add the Feature Gate DiskVolumeUpgradeControl=false.

  • Stateful application migration: Migrates stateful applications across zones.

    To disable this feature, add the Feature Gate ApplicationMigrationAcrossAZ=false.

Change Record

January 2026

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.35.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.35.1-4b60408

2026-01-19

Your services will not be affected by this upgrade.

October 2025

Version

Image address

Change Details

Modification Time

Impact

v1.33.2

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.2-f32da36

  • Changed the base image to a distroless image.

  • Fixed an intermittent concurrency conflict between goroutines.

2025-10-17

No impact on workloads.

August 2025

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.33.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.1-cb82bad

  • The storage-cnfs component was split into a managed cnfs-controller add-on, now available separately in the Add-ons page. For compatibility, cnfs-controller is automatically installed when you install or upgrade this component.

  • Removed the sub-component management model. The functionality of the former storage-auto-expander and storage-controller is now built-in and no longer requires ConfigMap-based management.

  • Added support for enabling or disabling individual features via Feature Gates.

2025-08-20

No impact on workloads.

v1.32.10

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.10-aa189c8

Optimized memory usage of the storage-auto-expander component.

2025-08-08

No impact on workloads.

May 2025

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.32.9

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.9

Improved security for the storage-cnfs and storage-controller components using security-hardened mode to access metadata.

2025-05-14

No impact on workloads.

March 2025

Version

Image address

Changes

Last Modified

Impact

v1.32.5

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.5

Fixed an issue in the storage-cnfs component.

2025-03-31

No impact on workloads.

v1.32.4

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.4

  • Deprecated the storage-monitor component. Its functionality is now handled by storage-cnfs.

  • The storage-cnfs component supports capacity monitoring for NAS volumes and publishes alert events on PVCs when available capacity drops below 15%.

  • Fixed repeated expansion attempts for NAS volumes in the storage-auto-expander component.

2025-03-12

No impact on workloads.

September 2024

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact of the change

v1.31.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.31.1

  • Upgraded the Alpine base image for storage-controller to version 3.18.

  • The storage-monitor component now supports byte-level capacity monitoring for NAS volumes.

  • Fixed issues in storage-auto-expander and upgraded its Alpine base image to version 3.18.

2024-09-26

No impact on workloads.

July 2024

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact of the change

v1.30.2

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.2

Optimized component logs.

2024-07-12

Your services will not be affected by this upgrade.

May 2024

Version

Image address

Change details

Modification Time

Change impact

v1.30.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.1

Updated dependencies and disabled older TLS versions to improve system security.

2024-05-31

No impact on workloads.

January 2024

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Change impact

v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun

Fixed an issue in the storage-controller component.

2024-01-17

No impact on workloads.

December 2023

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun

  • Fixed issues in the storage-monitor component.

  • Updated the base image to Alpine.

2023-12-25

No impact on workloads.

October 2023

Version number

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact of changes

v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun

  • Updated storage-controller to v1.26.2-639bc21-aliyun to support cross-zone migration of stateful applications using ESSD cloud disks.

  • Updated storage-cnfs to v1.24.39-0e24b92-aliyun to support enabling versioning for newly created OSS buckets and automatically creating associated StorageClasses for NAS volumes.

2023-10-25

No impact on workloads.

July 2023

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun

Fixed several monitoring and snapshot issues.

2023-07-02

No impact on workloads.

February 2023

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact of the change

v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun

Added the storage-controller component to support changing cloud disk types.

2023-02-06

No impact on workloads.

November 2022

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun

  • Updated storage-snapshot-manager to v1.22.1-464f816-aliyun.

  • Fixed an issue where storage-snapshot-manager occasionally crashed in clusters containing virtual nodes.

2022-11-02

No impact on workloads.

September 2022

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun

Updated storage-cnfs-controller to v1.24.31-262bf31-aliyun.

2022-09-27

No impact on workloads.

August 2022

Version

Image address

Modified content

Modification Time

Impact of the change

v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun

Added storage metric collection.

2022-08-25

No impact on workloads.

July 2022

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun

  • Added support for the File Storage NAS client acceleration feature, which is disabled by default. For more information, see Enable distributed caching for CNFS NAS clients.

  • Fixed an array-index out of bounds error in the auto-expansion component when disk usage exceeds 100%.

2022-07-13

No impact on workloads.

May 2022

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact of the change

v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun

registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun

Modified cloud disk snapshot YAML files.

2022-05-13

No impact on workloads.

April 2022

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impacts

v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun

registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun

Added support for advanced cloud disk snapshot features.

2022-04-14

No impact on workloads.

March 2022

Version

Image address

Changes

Modified Time

Impact

v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun

Patched security vulnerabilities in the CentOS 7 base image.

2022-03-16

No impact on workloads.

December 2021

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun

Fixed slow quota activation and automatic expansion failures for NAS file systems.

2021-12-22

No impact on workloads.

September 2021

Version

Image address

Change details

Modification Time

Impact of changes

v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun

  • Enabled Quota by default for CNFS-managed NAS to support automatic expansion.

  • Fixed pod scheduling to unavailable nodes.

  • Allowed pod scheduling to Linux nodes and non-virtual nodes.

  • Fixed an issue where CNFS status could not be updated.

2021-09-24

No impact on workloads.

August 2021

Version

Image address

Changes

Last Modified

Impact

v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun

  • Added support for CNFS to create Capacity NAS file systems by default.

  • Set the archiveOnDelete parameter to false in the StorageClass automatically created by CNFS. This deletes the subdirectory mounted by a PV when the PV is deleted.

  • Fixed excessive CPU usage in storage-monitor.

2021-08-16

No impact on workloads.

June 2021

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact

v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun

  • Added support for automatic expansion.

  • Added support for CNFS.

2021-06-25

No impact on workloads.

March 2021

Version

Image address

Changes

Modification Time

Impact of changes

v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun

New features:

  • Added support for batch snapshots.

  • Added support for scheduled snapshots.

  • Added support for cluster monitoring.

2021-03-25

No impact on workloads.